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21/10/2013
Of the 729,674 children born in the UK last year, some 354,000 will see their parents relationship break down by the time they reach the age of 15 years.
The claims are made on projections based on current trends by the Marriage Foundation.
Harry Benson, of the Marriage Foundation, found that of the 51% of children who will still be living with their parents at their fifteenth birthday, only 5% will have unmarried parents.
Commenting on the figures, Harry Benson said: "Almost all intact parents, 89 per cent, will be married. Of the teenagers not living with both parents, just 32 per cent of cases involved divorce.
"We continually hear about divorce rates shooting up and causing the exponential rise in family breakdown, but this is demonstrably not the case.
"The percentage of marriages ending in divorce has actually fallen since 2005 to 42 per cent. For all marriages lasting over ten years, the divorce rate has barely changed since the 1960s.
"It is the declining rates of marriage which provide the only conceivable explanation of the doubling of family breakdown since the 1980s."
Last week, a report by the Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said there was a link to social problems in Britain and "fragmented families".
Sir Wilshaw added that many children were "alienated" from their fathers, and issued a warning of the social problems that result from "making excuses" for bad parents.
He said: "Some people will tell you that social breakdown is the result of material poverty – it's more than this.
"These children lack more than money: They lack parents who take responsibility for seeing them raised well. It is this poverty of accountability which costs them.
"These children suffer because they are not given clear rules or boundaries, have few secure of safe attachments at home, and little understanding of the difference between right and wrong behaviour."
(JP/CD)
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Highest Rate Of Family Breakdown Recorded
Newly released figures from the ONS has suggested that babies born in 2012 will suffer higher rates of family breakdown than any other previous generation.Of the 729,674 children born in the UK last year, some 354,000 will see their parents relationship break down by the time they reach the age of 15 years.
The claims are made on projections based on current trends by the Marriage Foundation.
Harry Benson, of the Marriage Foundation, found that of the 51% of children who will still be living with their parents at their fifteenth birthday, only 5% will have unmarried parents.
Commenting on the figures, Harry Benson said: "Almost all intact parents, 89 per cent, will be married. Of the teenagers not living with both parents, just 32 per cent of cases involved divorce.
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"We continually hear about divorce rates shooting up and causing the exponential rise in family breakdown, but this is demonstrably not the case.
"The percentage of marriages ending in divorce has actually fallen since 2005 to 42 per cent. For all marriages lasting over ten years, the divorce rate has barely changed since the 1960s.
"It is the declining rates of marriage which provide the only conceivable explanation of the doubling of family breakdown since the 1980s."
Last week, a report by the Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said there was a link to social problems in Britain and "fragmented families".
Sir Wilshaw added that many children were "alienated" from their fathers, and issued a warning of the social problems that result from "making excuses" for bad parents.
He said: "Some people will tell you that social breakdown is the result of material poverty – it's more than this.
"These children lack more than money: They lack parents who take responsibility for seeing them raised well. It is this poverty of accountability which costs them.
"These children suffer because they are not given clear rules or boundaries, have few secure of safe attachments at home, and little understanding of the difference between right and wrong behaviour."
(JP/CD)
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